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#1 Balfizar

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Posted 11 October 2024 - 09:53 AM

What was the address of "Toranaland"  (East Gosford) Noble's Holden.

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Posted 11 October 2024 - 11:27 AM

To find Toranaland here somewhere:

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Posted 11 October 2024 - 11:37 AM

Have a look in one of the Owner Guides or Manuals from the 70's, it should have an address. If you don't have one I'll look in one later. It'll almost certainly be on the same premises as the Holden dealer, they would have just separated it so the nuns that went there didn't get offended by the crude Holden salesmen!  



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Posted 12 October 2024 - 05:57 PM

Country 2 NSW GOSFORD EAST
NOBLE'S EASTSIDE HOLDEN - (Toranaland)  GMH
01/01/1971 - 01/01/1975 4 Years, 0 Months, 0 Days
Cnr York & Webb Street 2250 David W Noble


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Posted 12 October 2024 - 07:02 PM

Top Job:  :deal: :clap:  :spoton:  :3gears:   :party:

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Posted 12 October 2024 - 08:40 PM

TORANALAND 70's to 2022:

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Posted 14 October 2024 - 07:17 AM

before it was lifeline it used to be a furniture store for about 20 years



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Posted 14 October 2024 - 11:23 PM

before it was lifeline it used to be a furniture store for about 20 years

2010 Knots Pine: :spoton:

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Posted 15 October 2024 - 07:27 AM

good work dave..before that i was various car yards back to when it was torana land

little bit further up central coast highway was another car yard as well.

now a world burger Joint.



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Posted 15 October 2024 - 11:23 AM

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Posted 15 October 2024 - 11:58 AM

So was the Holden dealership on the far left, then the yard for the nuns on the right?



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Posted 15 October 2024 - 06:48 PM

attachicon.gif Toranaland owned by Cullens.jpg

Did a close up shot: :spoton:

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and are those vacuum cleaners on left or fuel pumps?


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Posted 17 October 2024 - 01:39 PM

Old glass top bowsers I'd reckon.



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Posted 17 October 2024 - 02:39 PM

I am guessing, Car yard left, showroom/office right, shed behind yard- workshop.



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Posted 17 October 2024 - 04:13 PM

Did they have 2 x dealerships with different dealer codes? There was 2 x Gosford dealers with consecutive cost centre codes: 522-523. I was wondering if one was a Holden dealership and the other Torana?



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Posted 17 October 2024 - 05:59 PM

I found another picture.................

 

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Posted 17 October 2024 - 06:05 PM

I found another picture.................

 

attachicon.gif 5932883850_fa2c302f34_o.jpg

 

That's the real TORANALAND Peter,

 that has Torana's in the picture. :spoton:

 

Now to call all the colours from left to right.  :deal:  :stirpot:

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Posted 17 October 2024 - 09:03 PM

I think there are a couple of HJ's in there, but... Chamois, Salamanca, Chrome Yellow, (or maybe Sunburst??) Jade, Jade, Salamanca, 



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Posted 18 October 2024 - 06:16 PM

Old glass top bowsers I'd reckon.

Looked for something close,

 and remembered Pat Cullens did off-road racing,

and the sponcer was AMPOL.

The close-up shot of the bowser image shows writing across the middle of the bowser hat,

 just like AMPOL, and the front is white:

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Posted 18 October 2024 - 10:10 PM

A bit before Toranaland ,but interesting all the same.https://www.youtube....h?v=wYijU7qS9ow



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Posted 19 October 2024 - 05:12 AM

A bit before Toranaland ,but interesting all the same.https://www.youtube....h?v=wYijU7qS9ow

Very interesting  old pics there.

 

The dealers have always had nice big buildings, financial wizards really....considering  ..."we'll be lucky to break even on this car at the price you are getting it for mate.." and the other usual B.S.



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Posted 19 October 2024 - 11:47 AM

I remember the used car lot at North City Holden ,all the individual offices looking over the car lot .The salesman would all come out at once and pounce on prospective buyers .”This car won’t last long mate! I’ve had other people interested “😏



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Posted 19 October 2024 - 03:38 PM

North City had nothing on Brian Gardiner's. In the 1980's, one of their salesman had my sister in law sign a form before she could test drive a car. She found out when she got back that she had already bought it.



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Posted 20 October 2024 - 11:07 AM

Did they have 2 x dealerships with different dealer codes? There was 2 x Gosford dealers with consecutive cost centre codes: 522-523. I was wondering if one was a Holden dealership and the other Torana?

522 Gosford Motors (Retail) Pty Ltd  

523 NOBLE MOTORS (Most likely all Noble dealerships/locations were under the D/CD 523)

 

There were 21 GM/GMA/GMH dealers in Gosford from 1921 to the end






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